hi everyone
Just after some feed back on taking Duloxetine. I have had other meds form doctors and pain clinic. But not this. Has it helped anyone, are the side effects bad (have had bad side effects with others). They have started me on 20mg. Just not sure when to start them. As I still have to work. And do not want or feel awful in the morning when going to work. Which is hard enough to cope with as it is.
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it didn’t do anything for me at all but I continued to take it as prescribed. Took it for about a year.
The thing for me was coming off it. Awful withdrawal symptoms from this. Headaches shaking, I felt like a complete addict. Took me 4 months to get off the stuff. Never again!
This dose shouldn't leave you drowsy, i was given this recently to try and help phantom pain. Where i had my leg amputated in July. For me it left me alert and awake all the time. But definitely give it a go. I am now on Gabapentin and Amytrptiline been on A for a very long time. There are only 4 drugs apparently that will help nerve pain Duloxetine, Pregabalin, Amytriptiline, and Gabapentin. The good thing with the Gabapentin for me is its helping me sleep and i am awake early in the morning and don't feel how i was feeling, downside it helped phantom pain fir a week now its back with a vengeance feels exactly like the leg did when it was attached it is so weird i know the leg is gone but the pain hasn't. I guess they will be upping the dose again. Good luck with the Duloxetine. It is just a matter of finding the right thing, i know its hard ive been through it for the last 30 years. Good luck 🤞 it helps.
Amitriptyline didn't help my pain. Deluxatine was more help but the sweating was unbearable. Found tramadol, deluxatine, gabapentinand nortriptyline is the only thing that helps my pain. Everyone will have there own mix that helps them it's trill and error
Sadly Duloxetine didn't work for me either and as Nelly1 said the withdrawal symptoms were awful. Duloxetine also made me sweat excessively. But we all react differently and I seem to not tolerate medication in general 😏. Anything is worth a go with this dreadful condition 😔. Sorry I can't remember which part of the day I took them.🤦. Best of luck x
I take 60mg in the morning and 60mg in the evening it works for me. I've been on it about 4 years now. I had massive weight gain with Gabapentin and Pregablin. Good luck
I would never have started it if I had realised the withdrawal symptoms. Even missing a day makes you feel dizzy, shaky, loss of control. I was on 60 but have managed to get myself down to 30 after months and want to come off it totally but can’t face it at the moment. Nobody mentioned that when I started and I hate being addicted to anything. Not effective for me either.
Hi, i was put on this years ago, it did absolutely nothing for the pain, but the side effects were spectacular. on the top of my left arm all the way down it caused hard rough raised patches some several inches wide, one person actually asked me if i had psryasoris (sorry cant spell that) my GP took me off it and the patches went away over about a month, but every time i for at least the next year when i came out of the shower there were bright red marks the same size and shape of where the rough patches had been, these faded away to nothing over the day
Hello duloxetine has been life changing for me. It has helped my pain immensely and lifted my mood. I felt nauseous for the first 2 weeks so increased the dose more slowly than prescribed. Most medications make me feel nauseous though to start with. For me it was totally worth persevering. I'm just sad I wasn't offered it years ago. I hope you find something that helps.
Thank you
Can concur with the above. Persevered through six weeks of rather spectacularly sleepless nights, it suddenly clicked in overnight with a life changing reduction in pain.
I remain on 30mg but it’s continuing to work well for me a year later.
Your employer should make a reasonable adjustments (later starts, shorter office hours) for you while you adjust to the meds as Fibromyalgia is a disability I think?
I agree. I would never miss a dose — but duloxotine has helped take the edge off of my pain and has helped my mental health as well. It does take some time to adjust, allow your body that time. I take mine in the morning to help me thru the day.
Hi, I have MS and fibromyalgia and take a lot of medication, including Pregabalin and was prescribed duloxetine 60mg, which I take in the morning. It has really helped my pain and my mood. I have no side effects from taking it. Good luck x
I was reluctant to start taking them due to reading lots of reports of side effects, however I eventually decided to give them a try and luckily had no side effects but some positive/helpful results. Currently take 60mg in the morning and 30mg before bed, but initially had 30mg, then increased. I was on 120mg at one point but didn't feel any additional relief but some additional fatigue so reduced to current dose. Hope that helps and basically I would say give them a try because everyone is different xxx
Worked great for me initially but after about 4 years had to slowly keep increasing the dose to 60mg to get same effects. The initial side effects (was also on 20mg to start) I got through within the first 6 weeks and it gave me my life back for a long time. however by the time I stopped (almost a year ago now) the only side effect which I really couldn't stand was the head sweats which had made my life a misery and exacerbated the anxiety which this drug had gone someway to curing. (If you check out my posts you'll see others on this same subject)
No drug is really going to be a long term thing I guess as people have had issues with gabapentin and amitriptyline after extended use.
I am now working mostly down the complimentary route - gentle exercise, attend a pain clinic, diet changes etc. supported with stronger but not regular painkillers for when the days are just too much to handle - none of which I would have been able to do initially when I took the Duloxetine - so for me this was just another stepping stone in this pathway of Fibro.
Sending you gentle hugs and good wishes for your future xx
hi I take60mg every evening , after a couple of weeks of starting off on 30 mg. I took them to try and stop the crawling feeling o my legs, which thankfully they have. But also an added bonus is I also work and in a very stressful job, but I’m not stressed anymore . I do what I can in the time I have , so bonus it took away the stress, I think anyway. Gentle hugs x
I took Cymbalta first, then Duloxetine as it became available as the generic option. My side effects started slowly, then increased in number and intensity as time passed. I am now in my FOURTH YEAR of tapering off this medication by removing micro small beads a very few at a time. It is *poison*, in my mind. Such a slow taper is recommended to avoid serious issues. I sincerely feel that Doctors should be required to take it before ever prescribing. I had migraines, restless legs, insomnia, ear noises resembling “beating insect wings” (very disturbing) and much more. They are lessening now, as the years find me taking a much lower dose at present. I would RUN from the thought of starting this ….
All I can say that relates to your,post is that I am on max. Dose and I honestly have no idea if irtmismhelping, as I am also on other drugs.But I can say without a doubt, that without a doubt, my mornings are very bad. I don’t even work, yet I just feel lousy and no energy. Mid to late afternoon I start to wake up. At some point I may try cutting down or even stopping. I was on it one other time And I didn’t have any problem getting off it.
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